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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
| Nazlin BhimaniGergo Varga
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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The poor child’s nurse
| Briony Hudson
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
| Anna Faherty
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The family food of a kebab van man
| Melek ErdalAnna Keville Joyce
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.